Stop by the Humanities Commons on the second floor of the UGL for some snacks and to celebrate the works of art and culture from 1928 that entered the public domain in 2024 through a virtual program from the Internet Archive. The program offers an amazing lineup of academics, librarians, musicians, artists and advocates coming together to help illuminate the significance of this new class of works entering the public domain! If you’re unable to join us in person, visit go.wayne.edu/publicdomain24 to join us online.

The mouse that became Mickey will finally be free of his corporate captivity as the copyright term of the 1928 animated Disney film, Steamboat Willie, expires along with that of thousands of other cultural works on the first day of 2024.

This event is sponsored by the University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Commons.